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buffet

noun
/ˈbʊf.eɪ/UK/bəˈfeɪ/US/bəˈfe//ˈbʌf.ɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet.

  1. derived from buffet
  2. derived from buffet — “side table”
  3. inherited from buffet — “stool”
  4. inherited from buffet

Definitions

  1. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

  2. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

    • We'll be serving supper buffet style.
    • "We got a big buffet coming up soon. Bacon, eggs, fresh fruit you wouldn't believe."

  3. A small low stool

    A small low stool; a hassock.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

      • On his cheek a buffet fell.
      • October 30, 1795, Edmund Burke, letter to Lord Auckland those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay
      • Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.

    2. The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation…

      The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.

    3. To strike with a buffet

      To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

      • They spit in his face and buffeted him.

    4. To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

    5. To affect as with blows

      To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

      • to buffet the billows
      • The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, / Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
      • [...] I buffetted heat and mosquetoes, and got the hay all up [...]

    6. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

    7. To struggle, contend

      To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.

      • Again the chirpy tone did nothing to pacify the woman holding on to her ankles. Soon Zoe was buffeting back and forward through the hole.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA